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Date:      Wed, 6 Feb 2002 12:13:02 +0100 (MET)
From:      Thomas Schuerger <schuerge@wjpserver.CS.Uni-SB.DE>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   XFree86 4.x problems
Message-ID:  <200202061113.g16BD2L15786@wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de>

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Hi!

I have installed the current XFree86 4.x port on my machine. My box
has an 8 MB Matrox G200 AGP graphics card inside. I have built the port
with the MATROX_GXX_DRIVER (or whatever) option. I'm using a
1600x1200x24 resolution.

XFree86 works only mostly fine, but I have two problems:

First, the graphics card's memory is not cleared when X starts. When I
do a reboot, I have lots of graphics crap on the X screen when
starting X. I have to resize and move some windows around to actually
be able to see something (even the opened windows look crappy until I
resize them). Doing a cold-boot (i.e. switching the machine off and on
again) does not show this effect. Is there a way to force X to clear
the video memory?

Second, each time when X does a graphics card access (e.g. scrolling)
while playing music on my ISA soundcard (Creative AWE64), I can
actually hear a very short delay in the sound, as if the bus is
congested in some way and cannot deliver audio data fast enough.

I didn't have any of those problems before using XFree86 3.x. I had
the problem with XFree86 4.x on FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE and still on
4.5-RELEASE.

Any ideas?


Greetings,
Thomas.

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